Blue Mystic grow log...

Ok so heres an update.

Lady#3 is looking great showing more female preflowers and still stinking up the tent. She continues to grow out instead of up and is almost as wide as the tent. I have been trimming her here and there to allow more light to the developing tops. I also dried one of her leaves and tried it out. Pretty good for a leaf.

Lady#2 is growing but slowly. She is starting to look great with no more lead deformities.

Now on to Lady#1...
She has been giving me problems and now im stuck on what to do so im going to post pics here and start a troubleshooting thread.

Originally she had some weird brownish/clear slime growing in the res. Especially on the air stones. The water was also abnormally cloudy looking so I did a res change and tossed a capful of h2o2. She perked back up after that. Now I checked again and the slime is on her roots now and she is not happy at all. She stopped growing and her tops became real tight almost like they do when they start flowering. She had signs of nute burn before the slime so I backed the ppm down to 550-600 from 750-800. The spots on her leaves seem to keep spreading even after dropping the PPM. Also her leaves feel real dry like shes not getting any water. Using FF grow big and a dose of FF big bloom every other week. How much h2o2 is an appropriate dose?

Hope someone out there can help because I cant afford to lose this medicine. Its for me and my father who is really sick.


Pic 1 - Shows whats going on with her leaves.
Pic 2 - Top view. Looks like when you first flip the lights and the flowering begins to me.
Pic 3 - Same view as pic 1 but zoomed out.
Pic 4 - The slime! Evil!

Here are some update pics of the others. They are looking great.

Pic 1 - Shows Lady#2.
Pic 2 - Lady #3
Pic 3 - Lady #3 in the trippy LED light.
Pic 4 - Some nice alternating nodes.
Pic 5 - Shows some nice growth.

5 ml per gal or 1 tsp per gal which ever ya got lying around hehe

Ok so the h2o2 had basically no effect on the slime and there is alot more now. Her entire root zone is turning brown and she has her leaves pointed down... sigh.

So I did alot of digging around on the net and found what it is.

Its called Brown Algae. H2o2 and any other remedy for "root rot" wont work for this.
It feeds on organic matter and uses up all of the oxygen in the water, suffocating the plants. From what I read res chillers/temp or light tightness does not prevent this.
The only product on any forum or site listed that can combat brown algae is Physan 20.
Ordered mine today but afraid it wont get here in time. Noticed it starting in my other DWC... So this Blue Mystic grow ends up being a loss and learning experience. I still have the soil girl.

if all you used was 1 capfull I would suggest trying again at the 5ml per gal. I had kinda same looking thing going on in my bucket and it worked for me. If not sorry to hear you ran into a snag.

H202 should clear that up, don't be afraid to dose her good, (dying anyway, nothing to lose) ... good luck :smokin:

Thanks for the replies but I tried using 5ml/G but it just made the slime bigger. Article said something like it feeds on the oxygen from the h2o2. She already died.

Im hoping the other one can last until the Physan 20 gets here. I dont see much of it on it. Im sure it got in there though since I used the same kitchen spoon to stir around the solution in both res.

Ok so I got my Physan-20 but I havent dosed the second DWC yet. She had some slime starting but somehow it seems like she over came it. Its going away on its own with no h2o2. Hopefully I wont have to use the Physan since the sites I read says it shocks your plants alot. She is still growing super slow but I cant figure out why. Maybe a slow growing pheno?? She looks good though... Going to grab another tent for her and flip this other bush in my current tent. Was looking at Grow Lab 40 mother tent. Anybody have experience with grow lab? Says its made by Homebox. Ill post more + pics later.

there is some stuff I've been reading about that is an enzyme that basically feeds on dead stuff and converts into usable, name is hygrozyme or something along that line. It reads like a preventer :thumbsup: